Ten Years That Shook the City : San Francisco 1968-1978: A Reclaiming San Francisco Book
ISBN: 9781931404129 | 1931404127
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date: 6/14/2011
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A collection of essays spans the tumultuous decade from 1968, the year of the San Francisco State University strike, to 1978 and the twin traumas of the Jonestown massacre and the assassinations of mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. This volume provides a broad look at the diverse ways these ten years shook the city of San Francisco and shaped the world we live in today. From community gardening to environmental justice, gay rights and other identity-based social movements, anti-gentrification efforts, neighborhood arts program... MORE
The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.
| Shaken, and Stirred | p. 7 |
| On Strike! We're Gonna Shut it Down: The 1968-69 San Francisco State Strike | p. 15 |
| ôWith the Soul of a Human Rainbowö: Los Siete, Black Panthers, and Third Worldism in San Francisco | p. 30 |
| ôAll Those Who Care About The Mission, Stand Up With Me!ö: Latino Community Formation and the Mission Coalition Organization | p. 48 |
| Poetry and Solidarity in the Mission District | p. 61 |
| Lost Murals of ... MORE | p. 71 |
| Mujeres Muralistas | p. 81 |
| My World Incomplete/To Complete My World | p. 92 |
| Where Did All the Flowers Go? The View from a Street in Bernal Heights | p. 95 |
| Up Against the Bulkhead: A Photo Essay with Text | p. 108 |
| My Teacher, My Friend | p. 121 |
| Filipino Americans in the Decade of the International Hotel | p. 126 |
| ôHush Puppies,ö Communalist Politics, and Demolition Governance: The Rise and Fall of the Black Fillmore | p. 141 |
| The Fight to Stay: The Creation of the Community Housing Movement in San Francisco, 1968-1978 | p. 154 |
| Reflections from Occupied Ohlone Territory | p. 163 |
| Making Sexism Visible: Private Troubles Made Public | p. 170 |
| Sometimes You Work With The Democrats, And Sometimes You Riot | p. 183 |
| Coming Together: The Communal Option | p. 192 |
| San Bruno Mountain | p. 209 |
| The Farm by the Freeway | p. 219 |
| A Personal History of the San Francisco People's Food System | p. 232 |
| Ecology Emerges | p. 241 |
| San Francisco Labor in the 1970s | p. 258 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Underground Comix Movement in San Francisco and Beyond | p. 272 |
| San Francisco Bay Area Posters: 1968-1978 | p. 285 |
| Jung Sai Garment Workers Strike of 1974 | p. 303 |
| When Music Mattered | p. 317 |
| Contributors | p. 329 |
| Index | p. 332 |
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